The Ella Risk School is an elementary school without a 5th grade class located in the Central falls school district. In the last year the school has reached 15 out of 18 targets set by No Child Left Behind standards, and is under the category “Warning” for the school’s performance under NCLB. Two of the targets not met where under the proficiency in reading and math with students with disabilities. Which is a minor 4% higher in this school than the state wide average of 15%. Like most of the schools located in the central falls district poverty rates of children have a very large negative affect on the overall quality of education the students will receive compared to state averages and more affluent counties. This becomes very apparent when observing special student conditions such as eligibility for subsidized lunch, bilingual education services as well as the proficiency in math scores by grade level.
In the community description that was written by the students who were working on the central falls district it was made clear that the district is much worse off economically. Families below the federal poverty threshold in Central Falls is 41.5%, while in Rhode Island the percentage is only 18.4%. This is a shocking statistic that almost half of the families living in the district are below the poverty line and this poverty transfers to the students living in these households. According to the Infoworks site on Ella Risk Elementary 86% of the students at this school are eligible for subsidized lunch compared to 47% statewide average a staggeringly significant percent that will ultimately affect the schools that these students attend.
Cantal falls is an urban area with a higher percent of minorities than suburban environments with a predominantly white population and has more students who are speakers of a different language other than English. Of those students surveyed by the 2013-2014 Surveyworks Student Survey 57.7% identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino compared to the 23.4% state average. The community description of central falls that was written previously shows similar percents of ethnic groups living in central falls as the percents of ethnic students that attend Ella Risk. This correlates to the amount of students in the school who receive ESL/Bilingual Education Services to teach those students the English language and would affect the classroom environments to focus more on those students due to the language barrier. 20% of students in this school receive bilingual education services as opposed to the state average of 6%.
All of these factors contribute to a poorer performance by students attending this school than students who attend other schools in the state in both math and reading levels. The Infoworks site on this school shows that third graders are already not as proficient as other students in math and reading with 34% proficient in math and 56% proficient in reading compared to the state average of 56% proficient in math and 69% proficient in reading. This gap becomes even larger as students enter 4th grade with 45% of students in this school proficient in math and 49% in reading compared to the state with 63% of 4th graders proficient in math and 70% proficient in reading.
These are the general statistics of students in the Ella Risk School in Central Falls. These statistics are also factors that help to understand why the central falls district poverty rates of children have a very large negative affect on the overall quality of education the students will receive. Conditions such as eligibility for subsidized lunch, bilingual education services as well as the proficiency in math scores by grade level are all factors that support the image of the School as a school within an Urban Environment.
In the community description that was written by the students who were working on the central falls district it was made clear that the district is much worse off economically. Families below the federal poverty threshold in Central Falls is 41.5%, while in Rhode Island the percentage is only 18.4%. This is a shocking statistic that almost half of the families living in the district are below the poverty line and this poverty transfers to the students living in these households. According to the Infoworks site on Ella Risk Elementary 86% of the students at this school are eligible for subsidized lunch compared to 47% statewide average a staggeringly significant percent that will ultimately affect the schools that these students attend.
Cantal falls is an urban area with a higher percent of minorities than suburban environments with a predominantly white population and has more students who are speakers of a different language other than English. Of those students surveyed by the 2013-2014 Surveyworks Student Survey 57.7% identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino compared to the 23.4% state average. The community description of central falls that was written previously shows similar percents of ethnic groups living in central falls as the percents of ethnic students that attend Ella Risk. This correlates to the amount of students in the school who receive ESL/Bilingual Education Services to teach those students the English language and would affect the classroom environments to focus more on those students due to the language barrier. 20% of students in this school receive bilingual education services as opposed to the state average of 6%.
All of these factors contribute to a poorer performance by students attending this school than students who attend other schools in the state in both math and reading levels. The Infoworks site on this school shows that third graders are already not as proficient as other students in math and reading with 34% proficient in math and 56% proficient in reading compared to the state average of 56% proficient in math and 69% proficient in reading. This gap becomes even larger as students enter 4th grade with 45% of students in this school proficient in math and 49% in reading compared to the state with 63% of 4th graders proficient in math and 70% proficient in reading.
These are the general statistics of students in the Ella Risk School in Central Falls. These statistics are also factors that help to understand why the central falls district poverty rates of children have a very large negative affect on the overall quality of education the students will receive. Conditions such as eligibility for subsidized lunch, bilingual education services as well as the proficiency in math scores by grade level are all factors that support the image of the School as a school within an Urban Environment.
http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/school/ella-risk-school - Infoworks School Data